Justice for the Coalfields

Labour's ‘Justice for the Coalfields’ campaign urges Conservative Ministers to begin to put right the wrongs with coalfield communities in the North East and across the country.

Earlier this month newly-released cabinet papers revealed that the Thatcher Government had a secret plan to close 75 pits at the cost of some 65,000 jobs; that the Government did seek to influence police tactics to escalate the dispute; and that they actively considered declaring a state of emergency and deploying the Army to defeat the miners and unions.

Labour is now urging today's Tory-led government to take the following action:

• Make a formal apology for the actions of the Government during the time of the strike• Set out all details of the interactions between the Government and the police at the time• Release all information about Government-police communications around Orgreave, with a proper investigation which might go a little way to rebuild public confidence

Labour believes this must happen before the 30th Anniversary of Orgreave on June 18th this year.

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